Harrison Love (Matt Letscher).
When Zorro carves an M across Capt.
As a kid watching this movie, the sequence where Capt.
Love reveals the floating head and hand in jars of alcohol left me unsettled.
The depravity of these grisly images were not the stuff of other 90s adventure films likeThe RocketeerorThe Mummy.
Love in the latters case).
He was 18 and ready to join all the other 49ers newly arrived and in search of gold.
They made one mistake, however: They left Murrieta alive.
That is until the California legislature, under petition from white citizens, authorized Capt.
Harry Love of the California Rangers to hunt Murrieta down in the spring of 1853.
Love, but buries him under the gold white men would happily steal from brown prospectors.
In the aftermath, the Rangers killed at least four Mexican men and took another two prisoners.
Love subsequently found a doctor who supplied the tins of alcohol to preserve the other trophies.
This perhaps reflects the authors complicated feelings about his Cherokee Nation roots.
However, the American government insisted on forcing some semblance of legal tidiness atop its cruelties.
Hence it looked to get someone,anyone, from each Indigenous tribe or nation to sign a treaty.
They did not speak for the whole Cherokee Nation, but the U.S. government did not care.
Amongst those signatories was John Ridge, the father of John Rollin Ridge.
From his childhood window, a 12-year-old Yellow Bird watched.
Hed soon learn that his uncle and cousin met the same fate that night.
Ridge even once wrote to his cousin that he holds a deep seated principle of Revenge.
